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I think most of the classes are playable exept SIN and KFM with a ping of 200 and above, curently playing with 230 on TW with a BM, and I’m outpsing the taiwanese bms, its harder of course, for example mushin, before the last update, i killed last clone with 2 seconds past enrage timer, its just practice, high ping will make you a mutch better bm, since you will figure out how to max out your dps even with lacking the atack speed, since I saw a lot of players, taiwanese for example, whos skill build is amazingly bad, they don’t watch the cooldows, their dps is really bad. As in for arena, I had plat with 233 ping, so its fine, you can get used to the ping, but ofcourse, its uncomparable to low ping, when I went to korea and played with 20 ping from PC cafe, it was godlike, but since we prop wont get the EU or NA version, you eather get used to it or quit xD

if u have above 200 i dont suggest to play kfm or assasin, since you wont be able to dig in so much dps, because those 2 classes are very ping related. Why are they very ping related with Blade-Soul Gold? Because of their skills, for example on an summoner, once you burst out all your skills, there is a cooling time, on witch you dont dps that much nomore, and since they have big cooldowns its not a problem with ping, same goes with warlock, very big cooldowns so its fine

It is highly enlightening to what it’s like to play a class with over 200 ping, and yes I agree that high ping only makes it better for when you actually play with low ping, unfortunately, once I start with low ping, I wouldn’t want to let it go. xD
Also thank you for the slight summoner and WL talk but i need more detail on summoner

When you haven’t learned any Hongmun skills, I guess you can say Summoner and WL are only slightly affected by ping. However, when you learn Hongmun skills, pretty much ALL classes are affected heavily by high ping, so it doesn’t really matter which class you play. So, besides considering which class performs the best with high ping, you need to think about what other players expect from you based on your class. It doesn’t matter if you’re just going to be doing low-mid level dungeons, but if you’re thinking about playing higher level dungeons, try not to pick a class where you are expected to tank the boss.

For example, if you go to 4ppl jail dungeon as BM, people expect you to tank the boss (meaning if you’re not able to keep the boss’ aggro, your party members won’t be happy and will leave as you have enough Blade And Soul Gold). It’s true BM has a high dps, but with ping above 100, you won’t be able to keep the aggro. It doesn’t matter if you know every pattern of the boss and know how to handle it, you simply won’t be able to do enough damage to keep the aggro when you go with people with low ping who has similar equipment as you (and most of the time they do or have even better ones OTL). So, if you’re thinking of playing long term and be able to join all the dungeons, then pick a supporting class (destroyer, summoner, sin, lbm, fm, wl) rather than a tank class (bm and sometimes kfm)

Yeah it kinda makes sense that you need to be good to be able to keep aggro and be a tank. If you’re not able to do a certain role while playing as a certain, important class due to ping eg. BM’s tanking role, I don’t think that’s considered decent. Well you can always ask Chinese friends or guild mates who have better ping to tank instead, but you can’t ask them to do it forever :3 There will come a time when you have to tank. But of course, it might be possible to still carry out the tanking job well enough even with high ping, one of it being the no-brainer solution of being the most geared.

Pretty much as Krissy said. Assassin can be “playable” with 150-220 ping. You can pretty much solo main quest (except for blue dungeon quests from level 46-50) due to the stealth skill. But with that ping you will hit the wall when you challenge purple dungeons, even blue dungeons for Blade & Soul Items. I mainly play assassin and my normal ping is 65. I notice much difference just by 15ms ping increase, like 30% reduction in damage. To have high damage on sin you need to: 1/ RB F in stealth; 2/ animation cancel LB RB LB F on target when have 5 poison stacks, forced choke, choked, stunned, groggy; both of which are uncomfortable with 150+ ping, it makes your damage lower because of slower attack.

when they announced that the new LVL50 patch with new contents will be released on the 23rd, I was really happy. I am not the only one but all my friends and clanmates finished the lvl 45 content some weeks ago, since then the game just offered nothing new to us anymore (daily over and over, same dungeons over and over) and the majority of my friends stopped playing. I can say to you that most people don”t care about having the best weapon or the maximum amount of AP, they only care about the fun and content in the game. Due to the new announcement all my mates are pleased that the adventure can go on and they can explore new content. The suprise effect for me and my friends were really positive, even when their weapons are not “up to date”.

Then I came to this forum and reddit and just saw a lot of people whining about new content/weapons come to early. I mean for Blade-Soul Gold? There are people who complain about new content and that they anounced it only two days before???
Everyone who plays Hearthstone knows the real pain of announcement of announcements. I can say that people over there would be happy if they only announce the expansion 2 days before the launch. The teasing in Hearthstone is really a pain!

Props for Ncsoft West for releasing content without much anouncements! And they even showed by introducing an alternative weapon path that they think about the players in west!

Really huge thanks from me and my friends we are really excited for the new patch 🙂

An advise for people who went Zombie mode during last days to get AW Pirate:
Use your brain before you trust some random reddit post showing weapons which were not even official! Even without the additional alternative weapon path it was not necessary to go ham for pirate weapon. Look for my other posts which explained why. Play with YOUR pace so you have FUN, don”t let other dictate what you have to do. You can take advices yes, but in the end YOU decide what to do. It”s not Ncsoft fault that YOU decided to go Zombie Mode!

the path on Reddit was the most likely one to get added, and it added up well, so I don’t blame people for acting upon Blade And Soul Items. Of course everyone can play at their own pace, but I’d assume it’s no fun to fall behind peers and be ostracized from dungeons/clans whatnot.

And yes, information on weapon paths was partly speculated and only partly confirmed. Can’t blame people for trusting it, can blame for getting angry about the actual path being different. (though I didn’t see anyone angry about that)

Time unified counterattack fell 0.8 seconds, which means reducing the boxer assassin wrestlers fell counterattack duration and play a full career seconds in Blade and Soul.

Martial arts fight back successfully apply effects such as Hot Wheels swordsman Blade and Soul Gold, boxer boxing Tieshan by assault, stealth assassin, and so on.
Assimilated all fell to the ground will be broken against counterattack skills to lift, for example, broken heart Swordsman Jin Qiao foot dragon punch boxer empty-handed into the knives assassin landslides etc. Buy Blade And Soul Gold, meaning that spiritual sword and cut the swordsman fell dizziness weak resistance.
Whole career counterattack ended posterity will stand up Blade and Soul items, unlike the previous assassins and boxer continue after the end of the counter lying there since non seconds up action, since almost no seconds BNS gold.

Whole career into a 360-degree angle counterattack counterattack, farewell spirit sword swordsman from reflexive seconds.
1 second after a successful counter-attack resistance, in fact, the old version is also resistant to one second, then we did not call it resistance, we call it rock, so this does not affect, and how the old version, like the press or how pressure Blade and Soul power level, cut punches against Iron Mountain is still feasible.

Lens can not turn back.
Finally, after a few days after the test, said it obtained Blade and Soul News, but the update log does not write into things, first of all to congratulate spirit sword swordsman and assassin these three own son, is in an abnormal state up (weakness, dizziness) break Blade & Soul Gold, You can fight back, but not Guinness, Guinness this will not work, but the fist sea, could have been, but now I can not. Very malicious, the boxer habitual state when double counterattack by ground, the counterattack skills will enter CD, but there is no counter-action Blade & Soul Gold, hey, a crotch BUG boxer I have been accustomed to, do not want to Tucao.

Speaking in front of a two-state, two-state this version is slightly different, how should I say, the previous version should be able to press out the back when this version of the press could not, for example, spirit sword was after eating a big foot Chebi ham, form vertigo + knocked out two-state can fight back, but this version is not the press, but a floating floor with a dragon broke up but still can fight back. Specific details still need to find more practical exercises, we look forward to more tests.

I don’t know about the other regions, but TW is horrid with bots. Any day you can see 30+ destroyer bots moving through the zones leveling up and they all teleport in a big train line or teleport to mobs.

And as with most companies they ban in big waves but very far apart. Which means the people who have been impacted negatively by these bot swarms have probably already quit or left by the time any kind of consequence is dealt.

And also bans pretty much do nothing, as game is f2p, they constantly have new accounts botting to level up to replace any lots accounts. Also any rmt items(BNS Gold/gear) is moved to a neutral accounts(think bank accounts) that has less of a chance of being banned, and stuff is moved from there to new accounts when sold.

Background software like gameguard, nguard, warden etc are all useless in prevention. Any “fix” is completely overridden in hours after a update by the people who keep bot/hack programs going.

The only actual prevention/solution I can see game companies being able to provide is Live staff with characters in game with powers to instantly kick/ban a account. But those don’t exist these days, everything is done offline via CS systems that have as much red tape as governments.

In the end , only players really have the power to stop ramptant botting, since the vast majority of botting is done to support/feed the RMT market.

You need to think of tech support like this, they have a very long word document of responses, that certain buzzwords trigger, exceptions include things like refunds. When you said “Gameguard is MIA” (summarized), they don’t have an answer to give you that has been approved by the management. So they have to ask you to send information regarding it (see SS’) so they can present it to staff to create a demand for said change.

When your question isn’t being answered directly, it’s not that they are not reading it, they just don’t currently have a response to give you. So follow the instructions as they give them (IE take a picture of no gamegard in task manager). Something like this will require an announcement if enough people actually reflect this information.

Actually, Gameguard really is gone, at least for me. When launching the game the process is not usually hidden so you can see if it’s running or not in task manager. To verify if it was actually gone or not I deleted my BnS GameGuard folder and not only does the game launch without Blade & Soul Gold being there (it doesn’t trigger file check as it would in virtually every other game with GG either), the game actually launches even faster without the folder somehow.

If they don’t have information to give me then they could at least make the effort to tell me that they don’t have information to give me and that they would like me to provide them with information on the situation. Simply responding to me in a way that makes me uncertain if my questions are actually being read does not make me eager to comply with their request since it makes me feel like I’m giving them personal information for no real reason.

Hongmoon Levels are now available. You can now continue to earn experience past level 45 and earn Hongmoon Levels up to 5 which will grant you additional skill points and stats.
A new Daily Dash is available and will run for 8 weeks until April 6th, 2016.
Added achievements for Bloodshade Harbor, Nightshade Harbor, Mushin’s Tower and more.
New loading screens are available in English, French, and German.
You can now have a total of 4 skill pages in the Martial Tome, up from 3.
Fixed an issue with clan and party chat for low level characters.
Fixed various issues with collision and access to unintended areas.

User Interface

The Martial Tome UI has been overhauled and now includes additional filtering and sorting options.
Overhauled the Recommended Skills UI.
Fixed transparency issues on the Hongmoon Store with Blade & Soul Gold.
Removed notifications for inactive content from the Clock UI.
Added the ability to customize the Clock UI to additional time zones.
Updated the icons for Salvage.
Fixed an issue with the Exit button on the PIN/OTP UI.
Fixed an issue with in-game banners at 4K resolution.

PvP

Welcome to Blade & Soul PvP Preseason 1! The season will run from February 10th, 2016 to March 9th, 2016. You can now earn Zen Beans and Zen Bean vendors have been added to the game. In addition, rewards will be distributed at the end of the season based on your ranking.
Added new PvP ranking UI.

Classes

New Hongmoon Skills are available for each class! Unlock them by using the secret Hongmoon Skill scrolls from 4-member Bloodshade Harbor.
All Hongmoon skills now cost 2 skill points to train.
New Recommended Skill Builds are available for very class.
If you are affected by Knock Down and are inflicted with Stun or Daze you will no longer be able to use an ability that requires Knock Down status.
If you are affected by Knock Down or Daze and are inflicted with Stun you can no longer Retreat (F).

Items

Awakened Pirate and True Pirate weapons are now available and have had their critical damage bonuses increased.
Awakened Pirate and True Pirate weapons now receive the 100% Focus restoration effect starting from Stage 1.
Awakened Siren and higher weapons now have a chance to restore 100% Focus, up from 70%.
Awakened Siren and higher weapons now increase skill damage.
Added Zen Ben rewards to the Premium Membership tab in Dragon Express with the help of Blade & Soul Items.
Additional items can now be stored in the Wardrobe.
Updated the recipe for Blackwyrm Roar Resist Charm.
Updated rewards for 4-member and 6-member Blackram Supply Chain.

Localization

Fixed and updated a large amount of text, voiceover, and cutscene localization in English, German, and French.
Fixed issues with mismatched material names in Crafting and Gathering.
Fixed issues with the Login Queue UI in French and German.

System

Added optimization and performance improvements.
Fixed an issue with purchasing NCoin through the Hongmoon Store.
Improved support for AZERTY keyboards.
Improved error messages.